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- The Bulge of Africa
- 16 countries plus chad
- 3 are LandLocked
- Counties have more trade with Europe than with one another
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- 156 million
- Great Mosque at Kano
- Country is 51% Muslims, 40% Christian, 10 % tribal
- Oil found in 1950s offered promise, but severe mismanagement and corruption meant that the promise did not come about
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| The Nigerian Oil Industry |
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- Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Italy's Agip, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron
- 4.500 miles of pipeline, 159 oil fields, 275 flow stations
- Oil money not making it to people: water tanks without pumps, clinics with no medicine, schools with no teachers or books, fishponds with no fish
- The head of Nigeria's anti-corruption agency estimated that in 2004, 70% of oil revenues were wasted or stolen
- Oil leaks causing significant damage in the Niger River delta
- Natural gas flares have burned nonstop for decades, releasing green house gases and causing acid rain (gas can be re-injected, rather than flared, but it is more expensive.
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- 9.9 million
- French
- Muslim north and Christian south
- Overall 24% Muslims
- 42 ethic groups
- 64% employed in argriculture
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- 7.2 million
- French
- Muslim north and Christian south
- Overall 14% muslim
- 37 ethnic groups
- 66% employed in agriculture
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- 25 million
- Was called Gold Coast
- 1957 - First African state to become independent
- Population growth rate of 1.4% is very low for Africa
- 100 ethnic groups, but the Kwa linguistic groups is 75%
- 21% muslim
- Democratic government
- Relatively successful economy
- 62% in agriculture
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- The Akosombo Dam, completed in 1965, produces enough electricity to meet Ghana's needs as well as to sell to neighboring countries.
- Construction of the dam transformed the Volta River and created the world's fourth largest artificial lake, which now supplements coastal waters as a major source of fish. The flooding caused by the building of the Akosombo Dam resulted in 80,000 people having to be rehoused, which disrupted village social structure, and in an increase in mosquitoes and other disease-bearing insects.
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- 22 million
- Ivory Coast
- 28% muslim
- Abidjan is main port and "former" capital
- Current Capital is Yamoussoukro
- Had been doing well until ethnic strife resulted in periods of significant violence
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- 4.2 million
- 20% muslim
- Founded 1822 by Freed American slaves
- Rubber plantations/Iron mines
- 1989-1997 Civil War kills 230,000 people. More than 0.25 million refugees
- 2003 Civil War leads US and then UN troops help to restore order.
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- 5.8 million
- 1787 founded for freed slaves by british
- English is official language
- 46% Muslim
- 1990s Civil War lasted until 2001
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- 11 million
- French
- 85% Muslim
- Bauxite Mining
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- 1,4 million
- Portuguese
- 42% Muslim
- Subsistence agriculture
- Swamp Coast
- Pounding rice to prepare for meal
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- 13 million
- Dakar was the capital of French West Africa
- Peanut exports, fishing, phosphates, cotton
- Democratic tradition
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